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INFLUENCB OP THE~ INQUISITION. 133cauti6n:Îs IlOt able in~ftexiblJto preserve the incognito of consequence.'Vhen things that call for notice present themselves, on varions occurrencesin the course of society, sorne little emotion will betray,thatthere is one present, whose representations are attended to in a certainquarter. The respeètand attention this surmise procures to this saidpersonage1from the society he moves in, nourish a littleinextinguisbablevanity, and cause the secret not to be altogether so closely kept as itmight.':But a familial' of the Inquisition recognised, possesses a ton desupériorité in company, the value put on which needs not to he descantedon.strangetis.The institution has now discontinued its intcrference with:.sut a biUetor certificate of confession, of having perform­Catholidsm, is required by the established church,.from every. oneindiscriminately. But a liberalmode ofsettling this·isconceded td forelgners; more libeTal indeed than moraUydef~nsible:for by whatright can deceit, however innocent, be allowed to intervenein the course of human affairs?And the toleration, as it is called,whichrequires hurn:iliating conformity for essential differences, is amockery, and worse.Pa:lliative'S can avail nothing in a system radicallyl:md,as abuses aredften endurable in one essentiaHy good.Theforeignel"will.fFequently have the question put to him, " Are you corn­>Torwhich theanswer must be, "1 have already beenthe French are adepts in, and are ver}obligingly comttlunicative upon,to suehpersons from the North ofEuropeto 'pFèvent theirgetting 'in'toetnbarrRSsment;and at may he avoided; but it is bY'BQ means 80easily done in travelling. Tf the aniero propose mass, and anyhesitationappears, auy m~cuse is 'oi!ered, he stares as ifa doyen foot had protrudeditself before his eyes, considering conformity in this res~ect the-essential constituent qnality of human nature.'Vhile credulity can